Stop mandatory data retention

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Got this email from our friends at EFF:

Dear friends,

The U.S. House of Representatives is currently considering H.R. 1981, a bill that would order all of our online service providers to keep new logs about our online activities, logs to help the government identify the web sites we visit and the content we post online. This sweeping new “mandatory data retention” proposal treats every Internet user like a potential criminal and represents a clear and present danger to the online free speech and privacy rights of millions of innocent Americans.

Please, contact your Representative today and ask them to oppose this dangerous bill:
https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=497

Thank you for all that you do to help us safeguard online rights,

Rainey R., Richard E., Eva G. and the rest of the team

Help dc414 and the EFF stop mandatory data retention, contact your Representative and spread the word!

Thanks all!

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Thanks to everyone that came to our haphazard pre-DC19 dc414 meeting 🙂 We held this meeting so ngharo and I could get a better idea of what to talk about at DC19 and we got just that! We also had time to shoot the shit a little and talk about up coming events and meetings. So thank you again everyone that came out! Even though this wasn’t a normal dc414 meeting I still felt the need to give out free crap, every one congrat Lady Zsa Zsa on winning a awesome Diskette Manager 3, works best on DOS 2.3 and above 😛

lady zsa zsa holder her winnings

Aaron Swartz indicted.

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Got this email from the good group of people at Demand Progress:


Shocking news: Moments ago former Demand Progress Executive Director Aaron Swartz was indicted by the US government. As best as we can tell, he is being charged with allegedly downloading too many journal articles from the Web. The government contends that downloading so many journal articles constitutes felony computer hacking and should be punished with time in prison. We disagree.

Will you click here to sign our petition of support for Aaron?

The charges are made all the more senseless by the fact that the alleged victim has settled any claims against Aaron, explained they’ve suffered no loss or damage, and asked the government not to prosecute.

James Jacobs, the Government Documents Librarian at Stanford University — where Aaron did undergraduate work — denounced the arrest: “Aaron’s prosecution undermines academic inquiry and democratic principles,” Jacobs said. “It’s incredible that the government would try to lock someone up for allegedly looking up articles at a library.”

Will you click here to show your support for Aaron?

Thanks for your support and concern as we help see Aaron through these tough times. We’ll keep you updated.

— The Demand Progress team

This is just unreal and needs to be stopped here! Help Demand Progress and end this kind of crap for good!! Also if you can Demand Progress needs donations to fund their fight. Anything will help im sure, see their site for more details on that.

dc414 @ DEFCON19

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ngharo and I will be giving a presentation at DEFCON19!! DefCon Groups asked us to talk a little about dc414. Like about how we run it, what we do at meetings, what we do in public, and other odds and ends. This will be a first and a honor for the both of us, It should be lots of fun 🙂

Know you rights event post…..blog post and news

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The know your rights event was a huge success!! We took a bunch of pictures which we will be uploading later. I big thanks to Candlelight Collective, Waring R. Fincke, M.Peters Trucking, and the dc414 crew for making the event happen!!

And in other news, because most of us will be at DEFCON at the time our normal dc414 meeting takes place we will be moving the date to August 12th. Things will be back to normal in September.

June 2011 meeting recap

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I know this post is a little late but we have been busy with other stuff, and my mom always said better late then never. Valdimir started us off with a fun demo of his magnetic card reader “vid below”, which could also write to a card but he didnt have the right software, he said he will be getting the right stuff soon. Then he came out with the big guns, a 3G/cell phone jammer!! This thing was all kinds of fun, and i uploaded a little vid of one of the demos we did with it “bellow”. The awesomeness didn’t end there, dw5304 gave us a nice demo of ZFS and showed off some of its more robust features. One of my personal favorite features was being able to pipe snap shots to anything!! Congrats to Darkwind for beeing last meetings winner of free junk from dc414!! Here are some pics taken at dc414.

Darkwind and his winnings!

Vlad reading cards:

Vlad be jammin:

More Blacklist

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Got this email from the kind people at Demand Progress:

We’re forcing them to take our concerns seriously: Demand Progress members have sent more than 50,000 emails to Senators to urge them to oppose the Internet Blacklist Bill (the PROTECT IP Act). Now we’re hearing back from them, and one thing is clear: Our emails are compelling Senators to start thinking hard about Internet freedom.

PROTECT IP would give the government the power to force Internet service providers, search engines, and other “information location tools” to block users’ access to sites that have been accused of copyright infringement — the initiation of a China-style censorship regime here in the United States.

Will you email Congress to urge them to oppose the PROTECT IP Act? Just click here.

Senators are writing back to let us know that our emails are making them think twice before rubber-stamping PROTECT IP. For instance, Oregon’s Jeff Merkley is telling Demand Progress members:

I have heard from many Oregonians on both sides of this issue – those who support providing U.S. agencies with greater authority to shut down websites, and those who are worried that the legislation could result in Internet censorship. Thanks to your letter and the letters of fellow Oregonians, I have asked my staff to take a closer look into this legislation.

Let’s keep it coming — Will you email Congress to urge them to oppose the PROTECT IP Act? Just click here.

Thanks for fighting for Internet freedom!

Send a email to your senator now and stop this evil act.

Help 2600 Magazine Compile a List of Dates for their Hacker Calendar!

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2600, the magazine familiar to many as a preeminent hacking quarterly, is publishing a calendar. While, according to the 2600 site, most calendars only mark holidays, 2600 intends to “provide as complete a guide to milestones in the hacker world as humanly possible.” Not an easy task considering that, depending on your definition, hacking could extend to the discovery of fire, or at least the wheel.

2600 gives some examples in which they only list events back to March 3, 1885, when AT&T was founded. If this example is followed, that “only” gives one 126 years to work with, but compiling a full list of hacking dates is still a daunting task. If you can think of any dates worthy of consideration, email them to: calendar@2600.com. We think maybe September 5th, 2004 might be a notable date to include. We’ll leave it up to figure out what that date is, in case it wasn’t painfully obvious.

OP: http://hackaday.com/2011/06/04/help-2600-magazine-compile-a-list-of-dates-for-their-hacker-calendar/